Stacey Casteel (Greeley-Evans School District 6 At-large, Colorado, candidate 2023)
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Stacey Casteel ran for election to the Greeley-Evans School District 6 At-large in Colorado. She lost in the general election on November 7, 2023.
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[1]Elections
General election
General election for Greeley-Evans School District 6 At-large (3 seats)
The following candidates ran in the general election for Greeley-Evans School District 6 At-large on November 7, 2023.
Candidate | ||
| ✔ | Brenda Campos-Spitze (Nonpartisan)  | |
| ✔ | Natalie Mash (Nonpartisan) | |
| ✔ | Doran Reza Azari (Nonpartisan) | |
| Stacey Casteel (Nonpartisan) | ||
| Elda Ibet Palacios (Nonpartisan) | ||
| Ashlee Tilley (Nonpartisan) | ||
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Endorsements
Casteel received the following endorsements.
- Weld County, Colo., Republican Party
- Colorado Conservative Patriot Alliance
- Smart Choice Colorado
- Darcy Schoening - Frmr. El Paso Cnty. Moms for Liberty Chair
Campaign themes
Ballotpedia survey responses
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Stacey Casteel completed Ballotpedia's Candidate Connection survey in 2023. The survey questions appear in bold and are followed by Casteel's responses.
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I am a mom and an Air Force wife, who wants to help make sure that the students of our tomorrow receive a quality education to help them reach their highest potential.
- Giving back the power to the parents
- Guiding students to be capable and prepared for life after high school
- Accountability
I am personally passionate about all areas of public policy and believe that agenda setting is just as critical as formulating, adopting, implementing, and assessing policies. In order to ensure that our children are getting the best education, we need to make sure our agenda is clear, and policies are created, utilized, and reviewed.
I look up to my husband. He has encountered situations that most of us have not, and still refuses to let those circumstances be his identity, and refuses to see himself as a victim. In addition, he chooses to see himself as God sees him and he stands on his morals. Like millions of other people, his employer enforced a Covid 19 vaccine mandate, yet he refused to cave in. His faith in God, morals, and seeing himself as a victor not a victim are only a few reasons I look up to my husband.
I believe that the characteristics and principals most important to elected officials are ethics and integrity. If you’re not an ethical person and willing to compromise your integrity you’re not a good fit to represent the community. Being someone who is open to criticism and differing opinions is also important because you cannot solve problems, if you aren’t willing to listen to someone who questions you or has a different view than you.
I believe I have multiple qualities that would make me a successful officeholder, but most importantly it is that I like to hear all sides before making a decision and I have the ability to listen with an open mind. Even if I do not agree, I will listen to what you have to say and work at creating an understanding from all sides.
The core responsibilities is to assess a situation and make a decision that you believe to be the best decision for the biggest majority.
Instead of thinking about my legacy, I choose to focus on the children. If anything, my legacy would be that I always stood up for those who deserved a voice but didn’t have one. Being able to have peace of mind that I tried to do what was best for the kids is what truly matters to me.
The first historical event I remember would be the Gulf War. I was around 6 years old.
Besides babysitting all through middle and high school, my first job was a work study at University of Northern Colorado in food services for one semester.
As a self proclaimed bookworm, there is no way I can pick just one. I love so many different genres and love nothing more than diving into a book and becoming engulfed in it. Especially if it’s a rainy day and I can be outside wrapped in a warm blanket.
Another Brick in the Wall - Pink Floyd
Like everyone else, I’ve had multiple struggles in my life. But I don’t choose to look at them as struggles but instead character builders. I learn lessons and grow.
I believe that the primary job of the school board is to ensure children who attend public school are given the best experience possible.
The citizens of Greeley and Evans that either live or own a business inside the Greeley-Evans school district boundaries.
I believe the best way to start supporting the diverse needs of our district, is to begin by listening. Having an open mind and being willing to sit down and listen to the pros, cons, and anything in between from our citizens and weighing everyone’s opinions is the best step towards supporting these needs.
I will build relationships with members of the broader community by welcoming them to express their views in a safe place that no matter their views, or mine, they leave feeling heard. We may not always agree, but it is important to me that people at least feel heard.
I believe that only teaching students actual facts and not personal opinions constitutes good teaching. This can be measure by the success of all the students in the class.
As D6 continues to expand their Career and Training Education program, I’d like to see some more careers to come in to play. I believe that we should be teaching kids about financial information needed in adulthood. Some examples would be major purchases, such as houses, or growing your credit, and how to properly utilize lines of credit. In the last 20 years, universities have had to step away from allowing credit card companies to pray upon students, and now we need to start arming students on the best way to handle lines of credit.
I believe that before we evaluate how to properly fund our schools, that we need to have a better idea of what the current budget truly is and are we operating at a level somewhere between leisurely spending and pinching pennies. As an accounting major, I know and understand that there is a fine line between excessive spending and only able to make ends meet. If we are on the excessive side, I want to make sure we go through all of our expenses and current funding. If we are on the struggling side, I would like to figure out what we are currently spending money on that we can find other ways to provide for those items or services. We have an amazing community around us who love these children and want the best for them. Sometimes throwing money at it isn’t the answer. Sometimes it’s bringing the entire community in together to help out for the greater good.
School safety is very important to me. I want to be able to ensure we are doing everything we can to protect our students and staff. I want state legislators to understand that their current stance on social media platforms causes one of the biggest threats to our students. When school security and law enforcement’s hands are tied on pursuing threats, in addition to stopping cyber bullying, our children are at risk. When valuable hours they may not have, are tied up waiting for paperwork to proceed, our children are not safe. I appreciate everything our security team has put in to place currently.
Creating an inclusive community that is truly looking out for mental health seems like the best way to support needs of students, faculty, and staff. Currently there is a push to support only a small percentage of mental health needs and not inclusive to all mental health needs, therefore creating a bigger issue.
Any policy that prevents any employees from notifying parents about what is going on with their child inside the school needs to be changed. We cannot build up the relationship between the district and the community if there are any policies that prevent that.
My ideal learning environment is one that is free from all distractions. These distractions can be thing like cellphones, disruptive students, and curriculum that does not boost the overall academic knowledge of the students. We need to be utilizing in seat time to the fullest potential to be able to help kids learn and understand material and not worrying about things outside of academics.
I wish that the district would not have shut down at the end of the 2020 school year and I wish they would not have masked the children. Cohorts were completely useless, especially when there are families in the district that are split between two homes and exposed to different siblings. When requesting that stepsiblings stay together in cohorts is met with “that is not a priority” then what is the point of putting kids in cohorts.
If anything like this is ever an issue in the future, I will not be in favor of masking our kids, or shutting down the school. Everyone should be able to make decisions for what is best for their family. Anyone else’s views are not relevant.
If anything like this is ever an issue in the future, I will not be in favor of masking our kids, or shutting down the school. Everyone should be able to make decisions for what is best for their family. Anyone else’s views are not relevant.
I will continue to build relationships with parents by talking with them and listening to them. It is important to me that they understand I truly want the greater good for all students, parents, staff and faculty.
I want to reach out to see what other neighboring districts are doing. I want to focus on finding teachers who look forward to working at District 6, and to get there, we need to find out what others are doing. In addition to that, I believe that understanding where some of the current disconnect is between administration and the teachers will help us be able to recruit the best of the best, but also keep them. Retention has to be as much of a priority as recruiting.
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See also
2023 Elections
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